Does anybody here take the Greens seriously?

[bobzmyunkle]

Any chance of citing a serious news organisation?

Well that's one way for you to avoid the issue. You carry on.

 

[First Aspect]

Well that's one way for you to avoid the issue. You carry on.

I'm afraid to tell you that other than the headline, that article has probably been written using Gemini based on other reports. There's no insight in it, it merely states that Andy Burnam said X and Zach Polanski said Y, under an outraged headline.

The intention is for superficial readers to skim it and think oh gosh that's awful, Scotland should leave the UK. Which is what anyone reading it already thinks.

If that's your threshold for journalism, I cant help you.

One tip I can give you is that if the page is 90% adverts and 10% article, the website isn't surviving on the basis of its journalism.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Thanks for the tip. If you'd rather be pompous than address the issue that's your choice.
The BBC finally got round to covering the issue.
BBC News - Labour to break from Green council groups that back Zionism policy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6g7x1y577zro

 

[First Aspect]

This journalism lark is a doddle.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wri...GACAE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#lfId=ChxjMe

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Whoops.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0np1gldvo

The usual shills for Israel. I'll be very surprised if anything comes of it.
Here's the CAA having a go at Jonathan Powell (of all people) via his wife.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/16/jonathan-powell-wife-accused-backing-palestine-action/

 

[First Aspect]

The usual shills for Israel. I'll be very surprised if anything comes of it.
Here's the CAA having a go at Jonathan Powell (of all people) via his wife.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/16/jonathan-powell-wife-accused-backing-palestine-action/

Tend to agree. It's all just becoming needlessly binary.

 

[Psamathe]

I'm wondering if the Green PArty could be splitting. Or maybe just one "split" migrating to other parties?

Ex-Greens co-leader urges council groups to reject Zionism policy​

Ramsay, one of the Greens’ five MPs, said he was pleased that a number of Green council groups had already condemned the policy, which was adopted at the party’s conference and also calls for a single Palestinian state in place of Israel.
...
A series of Green council groups who share power with Labour have already rejected the motion, including Lewes, Warwick, Rother and Havant. Among other groups to have disowned the policy are the Greens in Southwark, who did so to maintain a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
...,
Green-run or jointly run councils were making a real difference, Ramsay said. “We can’t let this be undermined by a party conference motion which is a distraction from this work, and which I am confident is not supported by most party members.”

And Polanski doubling down insisting we won't change the policy, that it will remain for at least 2 years but he would like to see it amended.

 

[briantrumpet]

This is quite an eye-popping profile on Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/leftiestats.bsky.social